Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Steamboat Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Steamboat Springs added 398 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +65. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 40th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Steamboat Springs is 97% of it.

Steamboat Springs covers 9.89 square miles of land, for 1,377 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Steamboat Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Steamboat Springs is in

All of Steamboat Springs's residents live in Routt County, which had 25,243 residents in 2024. Steamboat Springs holds 54.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Steamboat Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Steamboat Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80487. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Steamboat Springs is

The Census internal point of Steamboat Springs is at 40.475600, -106.822900. Denver, the capital, is 109.6 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Laramie, WY (32,957 people), 85.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boulder, CO, 88.5 miles away.

Daylight in Steamboat Springs

At 40.48° N, Steamboat Springs gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Steamboat Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Hayden, 23.2 miles away, with 1,920 people.